Principal Performance and Manufacturing Architect
Brief Overview
NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Performance and Manufacturing Architect to join their Silicon Co-Design Group. This role requires deep expertise in physics, model building, and validation through silicon.
About the Role
The ideal candidate will own the connection between design intent and manufacturing reality, setting methodologies and proving them through silicon. They will improve how the organization ships products after every program and use AI deliberately to impact workflows and reduce risk.
Responsibilities
- Own the physics, from mechanism to margin, by building first-principles models connecting AVF, defect mechanisms, and DVFS transients to field FIT, system-level yield, and DPPM vs. coverage.
- Specify ATE and SLT voltage, frequency, and timing conditions that capture worst-case transient VF windows.
- Author the methodology document for each program and drive alignment across build, product definition, reliability, and test engineering.
- Own the per-release validation plan, including split-screen experiments, sample sizes, statistical acceptance criteria, and production monitoring, through QS sign-off.
Requirements
- BSEE / MSEE / PhD or equivalent experience with 15+ years in the field.
- Deep, hands-on understanding of how transient VF behavior develops worst-case stress conditions for marginal defects and timing violations.
- Demonstrated experience building first-principles models connecting physical parameters to manufacturing outcomes, calibrated through real silicon.
- Experience defining manufacturing test specifications on a shipped product, with each margin term explicitly sourced and owned.
- Experience owning and running silicon validation experiments that prove models from NPI through production.
Qualifications
- Clear track record defining manufacturing test specifications on a shipped product.
- Built and ran silicon validation experiments that proved models from NPI through production.
- Applied AI to production engineering workflows, including model fitting, anomaly detection, and specification generation.
- Worked across the VF specification and manufacturing boundary on multiple nodes and articulated how your approach evolved as defect populations shifted.
- Led multi-functional alignment on a methodology disagreement and brought the organization to a defensible, shared decision.
- Delivered innovative solutions on programs where the schedule did not allow a second experiment.
Benefits
Base salary range: $232,000 - $368,000. Eligible for equity and benefits. Applications accepted until June 29, 2026.
Pay
Base salary will be determined based on location, experience, and comparable positions.
Schedule
Details about the work schedule are not specified in the job posting.
Skills
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate strong skills in physics, model building, and validation through silicon, as well as experience with AI applications in production engineering workflows.
Benefits
Details about specific benefits are not provided in the job posting.
Contact Information
NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, visit NVIDIA's careers page.